Tooele County Chronicle | 1947-08-29 | Page 11 | Fire Lookouts Watch for Careless Airmen

fire lookouts watch for careless airmen SALT LAKE CITY UTAH air plane pilots are supplanting careless motorists as the bane of U S for est service fire fighters according to supervisor F C koziol of wasatch national forest it used to be that motorists carelessly flipping cigarettes from their car windows or knocking out pipe ashes were blamed for the majority of man set forest fires now ko says fire lookouts have been warned to keep their binoculars trained on pilots of aircraft it has been established to in many instances that aircraft have flown over areas immediately before fire eire has broken out he reports with no other causes discovered theres thern a distinct possibility poss ability that burning material tossed from the planes i caused the fires